The metalwork is out

Yesterday we turned up at our local hospital along with a packed waiting room of others for Clark to have the plate and six pins taken out of his arm, they were put in back in August when he broke both the bones in his left forearm.
He was in theatre within an hour of arriving, back up in the ward an hour and a half after being taken to theatre and home within four hours of stepping foot in the waiting room.
His nurse was an lovely older lady called Iris who took a bit of a shine to him so we had a bit of banter going back and forth.

In the second picture he's holding his bravery certificate which I will be colouring in and framing even if he thinks he's too old for one!
His hand is a bit swollen this morning and he hasn't got a lot of pain so all in all it was a lot nicer experience than when he had the metalwork put in.
Unfortunately not long after we'd got home the boys came running in to tell us that an older man had fallen over at the top of the road, it turned out to be a neighbours father-in-law.
Another neighbour rang an ambulance whilst Malc tried to keep the man on the floor and I pressed tissues to a deep cut above his eye.
Twenty-five minutes later an ambulance turned up with a paramedic that couldn't have been less interested if he tried. All the adults helping the man were appalled at his attitude. They did take him in as they said he would need stitches which is what I'd feared.
My neighbour is going to put a complaint in about the medic, luckily the man was a bit out of it to hear what was being said.
He was spending the night in hospital to be on the safe side.
Talking to his son last night I found out he was a Royal Marine for thirty years, I wonder if the medic would have treated him with a bit more respect if he'd known that?
After having such a lovely experience in the morning with the NHS, it was such a shame to have a negative one in the afternoon.
Luckily one man doesn't make the whole of the NHS and for every bad experience there must be hundreds of good ones!
After having Clark and Callum in their care I can only give them my admiration and gratitude.

Time to relax.

We had a lovely Easter, although we visited and had visitor's I still found time to knit these.

 They are vests for a knitting club, the last lot of these vests went to Israel.

That's number three and four, I'm going to try and do ten of them.









Clark has to go to hospital tomorrow to have an operation to take out the plate and pins that were put in his forearm last August when he broke both the bones.
So we have an early start but all being well we should be home by the afternoon.
I'm planning on taking some knitting for me to do whilst he's in surgery. There's always a positive!!
I'll let you all know he he gets on.

An oasis of calm.

We went to see my friend with lots of children on Good Friday, we'd been invited to tea.
Her house understandably is chaos but in a nice way.
There are children everywhere vying for attention all trying to show you everything at once and chatting away.
In a corner of the sofa Cody held the new baby, born three weeks ago.

Although she wasn't asleep in this picture she slept later, proof indeed that babies can sleep through anything!

We're going on a deer hunt!

We're definitely not scared and to be honest we don't have to go that far.
Out my front door, turn right and follow the pavement round the corner, stomp, stomp, stomp.
Cross the road, look left, look right, look left, look right.
Walk through the houses down the little lane and onto the field, squelch, squelch, squelch.
Follow the path around the water round to the other side and onto the next field, more squelch, squelch, squelching.
If you're very lucky you will get within 100ft of these beauties as Callum did this morning.

If you're even luckier they will pose for you as you take a picture.

Another vest, Palm Sunday crosses and losing an hour!

Now firstly I really don't need to lose an hour in my day to be honest I could do with gaining a few!
My friend who had baby number twelve visited Saturday night and left about 11pm, as we went right to bed after changing the clocks this was now midnight and as we had to get up for church Sunday morning I woke very grumpy, nobody wanted to get out of bed and the only reason I had to persevere in getting them up was that the children were doing the reading and Eden was doing the music with the Youth Worker.
We came away with our Palm Sunday crosses though which are now gracing the wall above our mantelpiece.

We have five, not seven as Eden forgot to pick one up and one broke but I think we have enough!
The picture is one of those that lights up in places, I was given it for Christmas but liked it so much I kept it up and switch the lights on sometimes in the evening but I suppose as we are now officially in Spring I'd better take it down!
I've finished another vest and I'm well on the way to finishing the front of another one. I seem to be on a roll with them, they're very easy to do and it's nice making a pattern of mixing the colours.

I seem to have a couple more followers so I would like to welcome them to my blog, I hope you enjoy what you read.

Charity knitting

After being inspired by all the lovely jumpers and blankets we were given a few weeks ago by a knitting group I decided that after finishing Solomans hoodie I would do some charity knitting of my own.
Here's my first vest

You can find the pattern here www.knitasquare.com

You can join there forum where lots of lovely knitters share their patterns.

You're welcome!!

Not my knitting

I"m still waiting on photos of scars and hospital pictures from Callums phone to post.
Meanwhile my friend with all the children had baby number twelve two weeks ago, a little girl.
She and her husband and new baby are coming to see us tomorrow evening which we are very much looking forward to.
Callum has knitted this whole set for the new baby. He just finished sewing it all up this afternoon.